Central Michigan Notes
• With their starts in today's game, both Jordan Blitzer and Robbie Harman have now started in 30 games this season for the Chippewas.
• With his 15 points in today's game, Jordan Blitzer has now scored in double-digits 27 times this season and 60 times in his career.
• With his 20 points in today's game, Robbie Harman has now scored in double-digits 24 times this season and 51 times in his career. It was also the fifth time this season and eighth time in his career Harman has scored 20 or more points.
• With his 14 points in today's game, Amir Rashid has now scored in double-digits three times this season and three times in his career.
• Today's game marks the 136th time CMU and WMU have played each other in basketball. This game, however, was the first time the two schools have played each other in the MAC Tournament.
• Including today's loss, CMU hasn't advanced to the Semifinals of the MAC Tournament since the 2002-03 season.
• With today's loss, CMU now drops to 1-7 in the MAC Quarterfinals since 2000.
• With his 15 points today, Jordan Blitzer moves into 15th place on the CMU career points list. He now has 1,158 career points and passed Jeff Heide (1981-85) who registered 1,148 career points for the Chippewas.
• With 20 points today, Robbie Harman moves into 22nd place on the CMU career points list. He now has 1,058 career points and passed Glenn Stuart (1954-56) who registered 1,057 career points for the Chippewas.
• With his 5 three-pointers attempted today, Jordan Blitzer has surpassed over 500 attempted three-pointers for his career. He has connected on 196/503 three-pointers in his Chippewa career (38.97%).
• With 2 made three-pointers today, Jordan Blitzer ties current teammate Robbie Harman on the all-time CMU season three-pointers made list. Has now has connected on 72 three-pointers this season. Harman made 72 three-pointers in 2008-09.
• With today's loss, Central Michigan drops to 37-13 under Head Coach Ernie Zeigler when leading at halftime.
• With 20 points in today's game, Robbie Harman has led the Chippewas in scoring for the 13th time this season and the 20th time in his career.
• With 6 rebounds in today's game, William McClure has led the Chippewas in rebounding for the 7th time this season and the 7th time in his career.
• Jordan Blitzer and Robbie Harman both surpassed 1,000 minutes played for the season. Blitzer logged 36 minutes to total 1,015 on the season and Harman logged 37 minutes to total 1,014 on the season.
• CMU received 81.67% of their scoring today from Jordan Blitzer (15 points), Robbie Harman (20 points), and Amir Rashid (14 points).
• CMU surrendered a 14 point deficit in the loss tonight. They were up by 14 with 13:42 left to play in the second half. Their largest lead surrendered in a loss this season was 18 points against Northern Illinois on February 24th.
• With his 14 points, Amir Rashid a season and career high in scoring. His previous high was 13 points scored, which he had accomplished twice this season.
• Amir Rashid tied his season and career high for steals. His three steals today matched the mark he had set three previous times.
Western Michigan Notes
• WMU improves to 18-14 overall with today's comeback victory.
• WMU is led by 2010 MAC Player of the Year and the school's all time leading scorer David Kool, who averaged a MAC high 20.9 ppg, as including 21.9 ppg in conference play. Kool went 0 for 4, and scored just 2 points in the first half. He was held scoreless until 1:32 remaining in the half, and did not record a field goal until 16:27 remaining in the 2nd half. However, he caught fire from there, finishing the game with 26 points.
• With his 26 points, Kool surpassed Manny Newsomes single season scoring record of 654 points, which had stood since the 1963-64 season.
• Sophomore Flenard Whitfield who helped lead the Broncos to their 1st round win against BG with a career high 19 pts. He posted his third double double of the year with 12 pts and 12 reb.
• With the win the Broncos improve to 2-1 on the season against Central Michigan. The two teams split their regular season series, with the home team winning each game.
• McLemore, who is 2nd on the team in scoring with a 11.7 ppg and 5.1 rpg, put in just 3 pts on 1-8 shooting.
• Donald Lawson, who has been a force on the defensive end in his WMU career (4th all-time in blocks) finished with 3 blocks, one short of his season high.
• Mike Douglas, who is 3rd in the MAC in assists with 4.48 pg, dished out 5 assists.
• David Brown who came into the game averaging just 2.2 pg, provided a big spark off the bench pouring in 7 pts in the first half, and tallying 11 pts. and 3 rebounds.
• The Broncos' production on the offensive end increased tremendously in the second half, as they scored 47 points and shot 22% from the field, compared to their 22 point effort on 30% shooting in the first half.
• WMU shot just 16.7% 91-6) in the first half from behind the line, down from their season average of 32%. They finished the game 3 for 12, shooting at a 25% clip.
